As scheduled, today the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (AFTRA) and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) began formal negotiations regarding a new three-year Exhibit A of the Network Code agreement. At the start of talks, both parties expressed their desire to engage in open, productive discussions that will hopefully lead to a resolution that makes sense for both AFTRA and the industry. Both parties believe that these negotiations will be most productive if we refrain from commenting to the media until an agreement is reached.

It sounds like we're not going to hear anything for awhile. Lets hope, and pray and cross our fingers, that when we do hear something again that it's good news.

I guess it's a natural progression when you combine an obsession with the vastness of the internet and some solid resourcefulness. Eventually you run out of basic, current information on the show and the cast and you still have a desire for more. Always more. That can lead down a fairly typical path: to spoilers.

But is that a good thing?

I purposely keep this blog focused no more than 1 episode ahead, while on my own I have read things even about next season. I have definitely read some things recently that I wish I hadn't but also a few that make me happy. It's a mixed bag. But I've decided that overall it's best to leave the major spoilers be.

I truly trust that Hart Hanson will eventually deliver on the thing I really want in this show - a truly mature, well tested, long lasting romance between Booth and Bones. I think he's been building to that all along and the main reason keeping it strung out so tensely is that it's a TV show and that's a necessity. I peruse the spoilers hoping to see a sign of that approaching but at the same time afraid I'd see it and thereby ruin the moment when you see Booth look at Bones (and oh man can David Boreanaz do that hungry I'm-aware-of-this-woman-in-a-very-special-way look so well), and visa versa, like we have many times, and suddenly no one spoils it and something clicks. But I digress...